At 5:07 PM 1/28/96, Mike McNally wrote:
Timothy C. May writes:
"Deutsche Telekom, Germany's national phone company, blocked its 1 million customers Thursday from gaining access to Internet "Web sites" maintained by customers of Web Communications of Santa Cruz.
I have this urge to e-mail Deutche Telekom the output of an appropriate AltaVista query so they can make sure none of that nasty stuff is reaching impressionable German adults & children.
It's interesting that some of the first things to pop up with a AV search of "Webcom AND Zundel" were instructions posted in one of German groups about how to bypass the access restrictions... [Actually, I just tried this search again, and didn't find the messages. Maybe I am misremembering I did last night, or maybe....] A Usenet message claims that Deutsche Bank is on the same Web server (?) and cannot access some of its customers. Whatever the precise truth of this, a side effect of countries trying to disconnect themselves from Bad Thoughts is disruption of commerce. This may provoke a bigger reaction than all of our protests and civil liberties points. --Tim Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."